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PortTack

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1. They actually made 3 attempts! 2 pontoon bridges, both blown up. Then they tried just driving

Reply to Tomconroy (Original post)

Sat May 14, 2022, 03:53 AM

May 2022

Their tanks into the river. The tanks are now stuck in the muddy river bottom. Estimates are they lost a battalions worth of equipment and possibly 200- 1000 soliders.

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Gen. Mick Ryan on how to cross a river. Or not. Brilliant thread! [View all] Tomconroy May 2022 OP

They actually made 3 attempts! 2 pontoon bridges, both blown up. Then they tried just driving PortTack May 2022 #1

They suffered the greatest defeat of the war so far Tomconroy May 2022 #2

The Guardian reports: Tomconroy May 2022 #3

They drove tanks into the river after bridges blown up? brush May 2022 #4

Death By Combat modrepub May 2022 #6

I will add that another reason The Soviets were successful in WW2 marked50 May 2022 #9

Exactly modrepub May 2022 #10

Apparently all the officers with knowledge and training are being killed. Irish_Dem May 2022 #7

"deploy snorkles" to a tanker it likely the same as "fix bayonets" to a rifleman Layzeebeaver May 2022 #8

"What I did to destroy Russian pantonne bridge over Siverskyi Donets" pecosbob May 2022 #5